Photo 51 is a 1952 X-ray based fiber diffraction image of a paracrystalline gel composed of DNA fiber taken by Rosalind Franklin's PhD student Raymond Gosling at King's College London, while working i
Photo 51, showing X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA
Cartoon explanation of how Photo 51 captured the double helix structure of DNA.
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA
Watson in 1960
DNA model built by Crick and Watson in 1953, in the Science Museum, London
Watson's name on New York City's Nobel Monument; it lists American laureates only, not Crick and Wilkins who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine